{ "type": "water", "pwsid": "OH8500312", "name": "Creston Village", "county": "Wayne", "population": 2171, "producer": true, "source_class": "groundwater", "label": "Groundwater wells (2 wells)", "bodies": [], "intakes": [], "wells": 2, "aquifer": "", "notes": "", "urls": [], "chain": [ "OH8500312" ], "plants": [], "facts": { "hist": [ [ "1860s", "Creston got its start as a railroad town; a post office under the name Pike Station was established in 1865." ], [ "1881", "The name was changed from Pike Station to Creston." ], [ "2019", "With help from Ohio EPA, the village formed a Source Water Assessment and Protection Program team of village employees and citizens, after the state study rated the aquifer highly susceptible to…" ], [ "2023", "In each of the year's two lead monitoring periods, 1 of 10 samples exceeded the 15 ppb action level; the second-half period included an individual result of 36 ppb. The 90th-percentile compliance…" ] ], "treat": "Groundwater from two wells owned by the village, feeding the Village of Creston Water Plant. The only treatment step documented in the sources is chlorine disinfection - total chlorine averaged 0.97 ppm in 2023 (range 0.53-1.42). Neither the CCR nor the village's water and sewer department page…", "press": "Not published. No psi figures or pressure-zone information appear in the CCR or on the village website.", "rate": { "g": null, "n": "Not published. The village's water and sewer department page lists staff and a water billing clerk line (330-435-6021, ext. 2, option 3) but carries no rate schedule, and no rate…", "m": null }, "imp": [ [ "Total Chlorine", "0.97", "ppm", "4 ppm (MRDL)", "2023", "Range 0.53-1.42 ppm. Disinfectant residual; no violation." ], [ "Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)", "7.4", "ppb", "80 ppb (MCL)", "2023", "No violation. The CCR is internally inconsistent here: it reports a level found of 7.4 ppb alongside a range of…" ], [ "Arsenic", "1.3", "ppb", "10 ppb (MCL)", "2023", "Range 0-5.2 ppb. No violation." ], [ "Fluoride", "0.41", "ppm", "4 ppm (MCL)", "2019", "No violation. Monitored less often than annually." ], [ "Barium", "0.05", "ppm", "2 ppm (MCL)", "2019", "No violation. Monitored less often than annually." ], [ "Lead (90th percentile)", "4.4 (Jan-Jun) /…", "ppb", "15 ppb (Action…", "2023", "Two monitoring periods, and in EACH one 1 of 10 samples exceeded the 15 ppb action level. The second-half period…" ], [ "Copper (90th percentile)", "0.77 (Jan-Jun)…", "ppm", "1.3 ppm (Action…", "2023", "0 of 10 samples over the action level in each period." ] ], "proj": [], "plan": [], "stress": "Ohio EPA's source water study rates the aquifer supplying Creston as having a high susceptibility to contamination, a determination the CCR says rests on tests indicating a shallow aquifer depth of 31 feet below ground surface. The village publishes a named dissent alongside it: George Mayhew, a hydrogeologist at Ohio Drilling who has…", "sew": { "s": "Run by the village's combined Water & Sewer Department, headed by Jason Flory (Department Head and Village Administrator) with Marcus Allen as Water/Sewer Supervisor. The department maintains water distribution lines, sewer collection systems, hydrants, valves and pumps. Wastewater treatment plant description, capacity, receiving stream…", "st": "Not published." }, "fun": [ "Creston's water report publishes a named expert who disagrees with the state about its own water: a hydrogeologist who has worked the village wells for more than 20 years argues roughly 100 feet of clay protects the…", "The biggest named threat to Creston's drinking water is the thing that created the town. It grew up as a railroad settlement in the 1860s, and the CCR names the two railroad lines running through it as the greatest…", "In 2023 one in ten lead samples exceeded the federal action level in each of the two testing periods - one at 36 ppb, more than double the limit - yet the reported compliance figure, a 90th-percentile value, showed no…", "The village changed its name in 1881; its post office had operated as Pike Station since 1865." ], "src": { "history": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creston,_Ohio", "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf" ], "treatment": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf", "https://www.crestonvillage.org/water-sewer-department/" ], "pressure": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf", "https://www.crestonvillage.org/water-sewer-department/" ], "rates": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/water-sewer-department/" ], "impurities": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf" ], "water_stress": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf" ], "sewer": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/water-sewer-department/", "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf" ], "fun_facts": [ "https://www.crestonvillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CCR-2023.pdf", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creston,_Ohio" ] } }, "zips_served": [ { "zip": "44217", "share": 0.5107, "dominant": true } ], "photo": { "url": "/photos/OH8500312.jpg", "caption": "Creston, Ohio water tower", "credit": "Roseohioresident", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0" }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8500312/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/water/OH8500312.json", "generated": "2026-09-16", "license": "CC BY 4.0 for the compilation; each source keeps its own terms", "cite": "Cracked Buckeye (Open Shower Co), \"Creston Village · OH8500312\", https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH8500312/, built 2026-09-16, accessed [date].", "schema": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/schema.json" }